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DBTBRMANN. y SHEET METAL SIDING FOR COVERING THB WALLS 0F BUILDINGS. No. 301,000

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NITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN B. DITIERI\IAI\IN, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH F. WAGNER, OF SAME PLACE.

SHEET-METALSIDING FOR COVERENGTHEWALLS OF BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,000, dated April l0, 1888.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. DETEEMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville,in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Sheet-Metal Siding for Covering the Walls of Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sheet-metal siding for buildings, and its object is to provide siding-plates formed with raised panels and corrugated inelosing-margins, whereby communication between the air-spaces formed by the raised panels is afforded through said corrugations.

Vith these and minor objects in View the invention consists in particulars of construction and combinations to be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation showing a section of siding constructed of my improved siding-plates. Fig. 2 is a section on the line am of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a section on line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail of one of the plates. Fig. 5 is asectional View illustrating a modication.

In carrying out my invention the sheathing A may be arranged in any usual or approved manner, and surfaced with felt, B, if desired.

The siding is constructed of plates O, of any suitable sheet metal-such as galvanized iron, black iron, copper, brass, Ste-though soft tin-plate such as is used for roofing maybe employed. The plates C, of proper size, are stamped up to form a central raised panel, c, iuclosed by a narrow margin, c', in a lower plane. l

As the siding is generally to be painted and sanded iu imitation of, stone, I usually construct the central parts of the stamping-dies with roughened surfaces, to leave depressions of unequal depth and cont-our in the surface of the panel, some of the depressions c being of such depth as to terminate in a plane with the margins c', in order that the points of such depressions will abut against the sheathing and support the plate at points distant from the margins. In iinishing the panels in imitation of smooth-dressed stone-that is, in dies having smooth surfaces centrally-the panels c may have secured to the under side a number of studs, c, as shown in Fig. 5, of a length equal to the depth of the panel, thus attaining the same end of supporting the panel at points distant from the margin. The margins c may be finished smooth; but I prefer to stamp them with transverse corrugations, as indicated at c5, Fig. 4, as this admits of the communication of the air-spaces beneath the several panels. As shown in Fig. 4, the opposite edges of the plates outside the margin proper are bent or hooked in opposite directions-that is, the edges at the top and one end of the plate are bent or hooked forward, as at d, and edges at the bottom and other end are bent rearwardly, as at d. Owing to this construction the plates may be secured to the sheathing one by one in rows from bottom to top, the securing -nails being driven beneath the bends d, the bends d' being then hooked therein to connect the plates and conceal the nails. After engagement of the bends d and d the joint should be iiattened byasuitable tool, care being taken that the joint shall not be so tight as to prevent the slight eX- pansion or contraction of each plate individually. The joints thus formed are similar to the joints in flat-lock tin roofs, except that I avoid soldering the joints in order that the plates may expand and contract upon changes of temperature or the sheathing may shrink slightly without injury or distigurementto the Siding.

I claim as my invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture, sidingplates for buildings, formed with a central raised panel and a corrugated inclosing-margin on a lower plane, whereby communication between the air-spaces beneath the panels of adjoining plates is afforded through said corrugations, substantially as set forth.

2. In a siding for buildings, the combination of the sheathing, the surface B, of felt or other suitable material, the plates provided with a central raised panel having inwardlyprojecting supporting-points and a narrow corrugated inclosingmargin having oppositely-disposed interlocking bends on opposite sides, and the securing-nails seated under said bends, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. DETERMANN.

Witnesses:

E. J. MANN, J. F. WAGNER.

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